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Tabitha Suzuma

Start date: October 3, 2014

Finish date: October 31, 2014

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Apr 30, 2014 Caroline rated it it was amazing

I FINISHED IT AND IM CRYING SO HARD OH MY GOSH

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Aug 21, 2013 Christine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: recommended

"I wonder what it would be like to be shut up in this airless glass box, slowly baked for two long months by the relentless sun, able to see the outdoors – the wind shaking the green trees right there in front of you – hurling yourself again and again at the invisible wall that seals you off from everything that is real and alive and necessary until eventually you succumb: scorched, exhausted, overwhelmed by the impossibility of the task. At what point does a fly give up trying to escape thro ...more

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Jun 20, 2014 Teresa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: heart-wrenching, romance, head-over-heels-in-love, sob-fest, contemporary

This novel is of a romance between two siblings, a novel about incest, which is a touchy subject usually avoided by many authors.

But I think Tabitha Suzuma really wrote this book so perfectly. The scenes weren't pushy nor were they even repulsive, as incestuous scenes are stereotypically classified as "gross".

Lochan and Maya never really considered each other as siblings; they saw each other as equals, as a team, as partners. And this close relationship ever since their childhood has bloomed i ...more

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